Out of the top 100 entities hiring the most tax lobbyists in 2024, all but two represented corporate interests, according to a report Public Citizen released today. More than 6,000 tax lobbyists descended on Capitol Hill in 2024 – nearly half of all lobbyists hired that year. Most of the corporations and corporate trade associations with the largest fleets of tax lobbyists in 2024 lobbied specifically on the Trump tax cuts, the report found.
“Conversations on Capitol Hill about federal tax policy were dominated by those representing corporate and wealthy interests,” said Susan Harley, managing director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division. “The Trump-Republican tax proposal is a policy of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.”
Additional findings from the report:
- Out of more than 6,000 tax lobbyists in total, more than 85% of their work was done representing corporate interests;
- There were 11 tax lobbyists for every member of Congress; and
- Many individual lobbyists were hired by multiple clients to work on tax issues. On average each quarter, clients deployed more than 10,500 tax lobbyists combined.
The largest tax lobbyist in 2024 was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which sent 99 lobbyists to Capitol Hill to influence tax policy. The Chamber was followed by Verizon (73), Intuit (71), Blue Cross and Blue Shield (71), and the Business Roundtable (68).
This content originally appeared on Common Dreams and was authored by Newswire Editor.